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To: neolib who wrote (67545)	4/19/2018 12:34:08 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364772

My in law was chairman of the statistics department at UC Berkeley and wrote books on theoretical statistics. At 55 both Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead changed from math to philosophy saying they could not get to where they wanted trough math. I went in the opposite direction and started reading physics books and have for the last 20 years. You mentioned Newtonian physics, most do not know that Einstein and probably Maxwell provided the stepping stone, found problems with Newtonian physics equations that the scientists had swept under the rug; and so relativity was born. If I had been smarter that would have been the field I would have chosen, but alas I have a mediocre left brain. But there are books written today that explain physics well without the math. I have been read Henning Genz's book on "Nothingness" for over a decade about vacuums, and Interestingly to me, the book that explained quantum mechanics the best for me was "Quantum Evolution" by Johnjoe McFadden who theorizes life begins in the quantum wave state which is why it pops up so easily when conditions are right for it. Molecular biologist Johnjoe McFadden risks the Inquisition by suggesting just such a possibility in Quantum Evolution: The New Science of Life. Directed at a general but somewhat sophisticated readership, the book covers the basics of both standard evolutionary theory and quantum-level physics, then synthesizes them in